ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Explain. All the six people died with their logs tightly clutched in their hands. Their indifference, animosity, discrimination invited death. This ‘proof of human sin’ is referred here.

Detailed explanation-2: -In short, selfishness is the ‘human sin’ here. And the logs in their hands are the ‘proof of human sin’.

Detailed explanation-3: -The poem Cold Within focuses on sins such as ill-will, jealousy, hatred, animosity, and lack of warmth and compassion in human relations. This lack exists at all levels: personal, family, social, etc. Most of the problems in the world exist because of this lack of warmth.

Detailed explanation-4: -All the six humans are similar in their prejudice, narrow mindedness. They had no compassion for other people. All six of them from cold that prevailed within their hearts, not by cold that was experienced on the outside.

Detailed explanation-5: -Literary Devices Here, the poet personifies happenstance or coincidence. In the second line, there is an alliteration in the phrase, “bleak and bitter”. There is an irony in the last line of this stanza. In the second stanza, there is a personal metaphor in “dying fire”.